Mother’s dying wishes granted at Christmas, two years after her death

A woman who passed away in 2011 left her family a Christmas surprise after her dying wish was finally fulfilled two years later.

Brenda Schmitz, a wife and mother of four boys, died from ovarian cancer in September 2011. A month before she passed away, she wrote a letter addressed to her local radio station, which runs an annual Christmas wishes programme.

Brenda, 46, asked a friend to only post the letter to the Iowa radio station, Star 102.5, once her widowed husband, David, had fallen in love again.

David Schmitz listens to the letter from his late wife Brenda (Picture: YouTube)

This year the station brought David in to the studio and surprised him on air by saying they had received a letter from his late wife.

‘When you are in receipt of this letter, I will have already lost my battle to ovarian cancer,’ Brenda said in the heartfelt note.

‘I told [my friend] once my loving husband David had moved on in his life and had met someone to share his life with again, to mail this letter to all of you at the station.’

Brenda’s ‘Christmas wish’ from the station, of which few are granted every year, was for David’s new love to be pampered.

Brenda Schmitz’s dying Christmas wish was granted two years after she passed away (Picture: YouTube)

‘She deserves it, being a stepmother to all those boys. Maker her smile and know her efforts are truly appreciated from me,’ the letter read.

She also requested for a ‘magical trip’ for all the family as well as a night out for cancer doctors at Mercy Medical Hospital where she was treated.

All three of Brenda’s wishes where granted by the station and local sponsors, who sent the family of eight, including two children of David’s partner Jane, to Disney World.